(March 31, 2012 at 11:11 am)cdabamsworth Wrote: If you interpret the whole Bible literally, you're a bad Christian because you could justify evil behaviour, and scientists will laugh at you because you're probably a creationist.
If you interpret some of the Bible literally and some of it as metaphor, you're cherry-picking, and historians will laugh at you for making a judgement of what happened / didn't happen according to guesswork rather than evidence.
If you interpret the whole Bible as metaphor, you're not a Christian.
It seems to me like you just can't get it right with Christianity. I guess the Bible contradicts itself way too much to be a practical moral tool in any way.
Bible interpretation only becomes a problem when you filter it through the culture first.
If you first separate the culture from scripture then one can interpret the bible literally.
